Loose Leaf Tea With Keurig Coffee Makers

Is your countertop crowded with a coffee maker and a kettle alongside the many other appliances of daily life? Perhaps you are holding onto your kettle because you prefer loose leaf tea and simply cannot imagine giving up the speed with which a kettle can heat water for steeping tea.

Your Keurig K-Cup coffee maker is capable of replacing that old kettle, though, even if you did not think so before. Keurig machines heat water very quickly, often making them as fast or faster than the average kettle. You may know this from using tea K-Cups, but did you know that you can brew loose leaf tea with your Keurig coffee maker? It is true, but you will find that the addition of one small accessory will make it far easier to brew loose leaf tea with a Keurig K-Cup coffee maker.

My K-Cup, My Loose Leaf Tea

Keurig K-Cup tea is quite good, but if you are serious about tea, you probably have a collection of loose leaf tea that you prefer to steep with a variety of filters, screens, tea balls, or homemade tea bags. One can find oneself quite overburdened with fetishistic equipment when one loves tea, but just the addition of a single My K-Cup reusable filter is enough to turn your Keurig brewer into an excellent single serving tea maker.

The My K-Cup is a reusable filter specifically designed for use in K-Cup coffee makers. It makes it possible to brew any ground coffee with your Keurig, and it also works excellently with loose leaf tea. It adds a functionality to K-Cup coffee makers that many desire and broadens the range of options available to you. It is machine washable and easy to use with the added benefit of improving the environmental-friendliness of your Keurig K-Cup coffee maker.

By combining the My K-Cup with your Keurig K-Cup coffee maker, you can steep any loose leaf tea just as easily as you can brew any regular tea K-Cup. It may take some practice with various cup volumes to get a specific tea that you prefer just right, but once you do, enjoying loose leaf tea in a Keurig coffee maker is a wonderful and easy experience.

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Is there a specific machine we should look at for tea making? One thing I didn’t see mentioned at all here is different temperatures – like boiling for black, rooibos and most herbal teas, as opposed to 150-160F for green tea, with other specific temperatures for oolong and white teas. For example, our office keurig would make white tea bitter because it brews it too hot. And that’s not even getting into steeping times, which vary from 2 minutes or less to 8 minutes. Our Keurig spits out your drink in well under a minute, so how can it possibly make *any* tea just by using a "my k-cup" in this machine?

All of the Keurig machines will brew tea with the My K-Cup filter, but obviously the models that give you more control of brew volume and such give you more options in terms of strength.

The reason the Keurig machines can brew tea so quickly is because both K-Cups and the My K-Cup add the element of pressure to the steeping equation. This pressure speeds extractions in ways low-pressure steeping does not, meaning the compounds in tea are extracted faster.

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